My Friend H: John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton of Broughton de GyffordJ. Murray, 1948 - 369 pages |
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Page 52
... reading aloud The Rape of the Lock to the family at Whitton Park , his father's place in Middlesex , he wrote : " Nothing will do after Pope . I am convinced that even my friend's poetry would have been thought monstrous and affected in ...
... reading aloud The Rape of the Lock to the family at Whitton Park , his father's place in Middlesex , he wrote : " Nothing will do after Pope . I am convinced that even my friend's poetry would have been thought monstrous and affected in ...
Page 215
... reading of the Bill was fixed for Monday , the 21st March . The Tories were resolved to fight , and had actually defeated the Govern- ment on the previous Thursday in an irrelevant division on the timber duties . It was an anxious time ...
... reading of the Bill was fixed for Monday , the 21st March . The Tories were resolved to fight , and had actually defeated the Govern- ment on the previous Thursday in an irrelevant division on the timber duties . It was an anxious time ...
Page 239
... reading of the Reform Bill in the House of Lords was fixed for the 9th April . There had recently been signs that the King's determina- tion to support his Ministers was weakening , for as Althorp sadly observed : " Kings are Kings ...
... reading of the Reform Bill in the House of Lords was fixed for the 9th April . There had recently been signs that the King's determina- tion to support his Ministers was weakening , for as Althorp sadly observed : " Kings are Kings ...
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